Birthdays, Groceries, INXS
Mar. 10th, 2002 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterFirst off, thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday, either in their own journal posts or in follow-ups to mine. I appreciate it.
What is it with birthdays, anyway? We--well, okay, I'll be honest here, I can only speak from my own experience, so...I get upset if people don't wish me a happy birthday. Why is that? Hmm. Well, I suppose that it's because a birthday is one of the more private of the public things about a person; you typically have to know a person really well to know when their birthday is. (Unless they link it to their ICQ, or their livejournal, or what-have-you--but even so, you still have to bother to look it up.)
I guess that it makes me feel like these people think I'm important enough to bother to look it up and then to remember to let me know about it at the right time--even if, let's be honest here, the LiveJournal told them, or the ICQ told them, or their organizer told them...or, for that matter, I told them. My ego being what it is, I can use all of that I can get.
Every year, I sort of hope that the group of people I hang around with on-line most of the time will remember that it's my birthday without me telling them, and wish me a happy birthday on the stroke of midnight. Maybe someday...
As for today, I'll be heading over to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blacknumber01's place for dinner, movies, and birthday cake. Joe says he's making me one. Isn't that nice of him? I need to figure out what DVDs to take along. I'll be bringing some bread machine bread that's due out in about an hour, and the fixings for spaghetti. And some other stuff that I picked up at the Oriental grocery store a bit ago.
Oriental grocery stores are neat. I wanted to get some more Sriracha sauce, as I had run out of it, so I checked the phone book to see if there were any nearby. As it happened, there was one quite close (Binh Tay restaurant and grocery on North Boonville, just south of Hamby's, for those of you also in Springfield)--and a quick phone call confirmed that they were indeed open, and they did have the sauce. So I high-tailed it up there, bought the sauce, some bowl-ramen, pocky (yay pocky!), some canned beverages I'll surprise Joe with, and some kim chee. I love kim chee; it's delicious stuff, and makes me glad I can't smell. Now I'll be able to make fried spam and kim chee sandwiches; that's gonna be some gooood eating.
(More on Oriental groceries, plus my current music, after the cut.) It's fun shopping through these stores, looking at the odd kinds of food with the not-quite-English labels and wondering how they're meant to be used. I think my favorite was the box of green tea which proclaimed itself to be "Special Gunpowder" in big bold letters. Uh-huh. That's got to be some strong tea. (Edit: I have since been informed that gunpowder tea is an actual term for a certain type of tea, not just an incidence of Engrish. Learn something new every day.) I'm also more amused than I should be by the hotter version of Sriracha, Sriracha Chili Sauce, which proclaims itself to be "D&D Gold" (actually, according to the back, that's the name of the manufacturer). I have this sudden vision of a tunnel-crawling party stumbling across a chest of the stuff now.
I'm currently listening to an album I picked up this morning--INXS, "The Swing". It's actually an album I've had for quite some time, but in cassette form. I have a lot of INXS albums--most of them, I'd wager--as cassettes, as a relic of the days when I would carry around my old cassette walkman plus a couple of briefcase-sized tape carriers everywhere I went. I used to listen to them all the time. Now, I've had the sudden urge to hear some of them again, but I'm without a working tape player since the roachy demise of my radio as chronicled a few months back. (Well, I still do have the Walkman, too, but it's buried under junk somewhere.) Besides, I want to rip them and put them on my hard drive for incorporation into the random play everything cycle that's so much like having my own personal radio station. So, I'm putting the collection back together, one CD at a time.
Annoyingly, Audiogalaxy seems to have locked out trading of INXS songs. I guess their record label complained. It's really quite frustrating, because I still have the tapes; I legitimately own the music. I'd like to have the songs themselves without having to shell out again. I suppose I can try another peer to peer service next time I boot into Windows.
Might as well get ready to head over to Joe's. More later.
What is it with birthdays, anyway? We--well, okay, I'll be honest here, I can only speak from my own experience, so...I get upset if people don't wish me a happy birthday. Why is that? Hmm. Well, I suppose that it's because a birthday is one of the more private of the public things about a person; you typically have to know a person really well to know when their birthday is. (Unless they link it to their ICQ, or their livejournal, or what-have-you--but even so, you still have to bother to look it up.)
I guess that it makes me feel like these people think I'm important enough to bother to look it up and then to remember to let me know about it at the right time--even if, let's be honest here, the LiveJournal told them, or the ICQ told them, or their organizer told them...or, for that matter, I told them. My ego being what it is, I can use all of that I can get.
Every year, I sort of hope that the group of people I hang around with on-line most of the time will remember that it's my birthday without me telling them, and wish me a happy birthday on the stroke of midnight. Maybe someday...
As for today, I'll be heading over to
blacknumber01's place for dinner, movies, and birthday cake. Joe says he's making me one. Isn't that nice of him? I need to figure out what DVDs to take along. I'll be bringing some bread machine bread that's due out in about an hour, and the fixings for spaghetti. And some other stuff that I picked up at the Oriental grocery store a bit ago.Oriental grocery stores are neat. I wanted to get some more Sriracha sauce, as I had run out of it, so I checked the phone book to see if there were any nearby. As it happened, there was one quite close (Binh Tay restaurant and grocery on North Boonville, just south of Hamby's, for those of you also in Springfield)--and a quick phone call confirmed that they were indeed open, and they did have the sauce. So I high-tailed it up there, bought the sauce, some bowl-ramen, pocky (yay pocky!), some canned beverages I'll surprise Joe with, and some kim chee. I love kim chee; it's delicious stuff, and makes me glad I can't smell. Now I'll be able to make fried spam and kim chee sandwiches; that's gonna be some gooood eating.
(More on Oriental groceries, plus my current music, after the cut.) It's fun shopping through these stores, looking at the odd kinds of food with the not-quite-English labels and wondering how they're meant to be used. I think my favorite was the box of green tea which proclaimed itself to be "Special Gunpowder" in big bold letters. Uh-huh. That's got to be some strong tea. (Edit: I have since been informed that gunpowder tea is an actual term for a certain type of tea, not just an incidence of Engrish. Learn something new every day.) I'm also more amused than I should be by the hotter version of Sriracha, Sriracha Chili Sauce, which proclaims itself to be "D&D Gold" (actually, according to the back, that's the name of the manufacturer). I have this sudden vision of a tunnel-crawling party stumbling across a chest of the stuff now.
I'm currently listening to an album I picked up this morning--INXS, "The Swing". It's actually an album I've had for quite some time, but in cassette form. I have a lot of INXS albums--most of them, I'd wager--as cassettes, as a relic of the days when I would carry around my old cassette walkman plus a couple of briefcase-sized tape carriers everywhere I went. I used to listen to them all the time. Now, I've had the sudden urge to hear some of them again, but I'm without a working tape player since the roachy demise of my radio as chronicled a few months back. (Well, I still do have the Walkman, too, but it's buried under junk somewhere.) Besides, I want to rip them and put them on my hard drive for incorporation into the random play everything cycle that's so much like having my own personal radio station. So, I'm putting the collection back together, one CD at a time.
Annoyingly, Audiogalaxy seems to have locked out trading of INXS songs. I guess their record label complained. It's really quite frustrating, because I still have the tapes; I legitimately own the music. I'd like to have the songs themselves without having to shell out again. I suppose I can try another peer to peer service next time I boot into Windows.
Might as well get ready to head over to Joe's. More later.
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